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I attended a language course once and the teacher proudly announced that fluency in a language need only 500 words. Afterward, some of the other students were amazed by this, and obviously highly motivated at how easy fluency was to attain. I think I dampened their zeal a little by pointing out that knowing 500 words is the easy part - it's in putting them into the correct order that it all starts to get tricky.